Song: “Delicate Creatures” Artist: Tim Cohen I’m really tempted to describe the haunting beauty of this tune by just copy/pasting the lyrics here, but even that won’t do it justice. Tim Cohen fronts the San Francisco psych-pop outfit The Fresh & Onlys, but in this solo track he strips away all of the trappings and [...]
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Song: “Waves” Artist: The Spires Is there a poem about poetry? Is there a novel about fiction? Is there a film about films? Maybe, but really, I have no fucking clue, and you and I and everyone we know can spend our entire lives, and then some, debating these very questions (which may or may [...]
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Song: “Little Something” Artist: Big Hurry If you know us well, you know we love Big Hurry, and if you know Big Hurry well, you’ll be just as excited about this new tune as we are. “Little Something” is actually a pretty big deal; it’s the first teaser of the band’s forthcoming Sink Or Swim [...]
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We had an extra special ticket giveaway for The Olivia Tremor Control concert last week. Normally, we just ask for some entires and pick entirely at random, but such an awesome band as OTC and the amazing people of The Carnegie Museums and The Warhol demand something more exciting! With two levels of prizes for [...]
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Song: “My Mistakes” Artist: Eleanor Friedberger This is a song about a specific moment. This is a song about a single second spent traversing a bridge. This is a song about the way our minds can jump around from time and place to time and place, both willingly and unintentionally, the way we can extract [...]
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Song: Teenage Dream (Katy Perry Cover) Artist: Darwin Deez “Don’t ever look back / Don’t ever dress wack.” Let’s talk about Katy Perry for a second. Because it’s summer. And because, regardless of how you feel about her, you have to admit, her music is catchy. Now let’s talk about Darwin Deez. Another catchy musician [...]
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Song: Benediction Artist: Thurston Moore I might be setting myself up for failure here because there’s really only one word that can describe this song: beautiful. This song oozes with beauty in every sense of the word. The opening guitar strums showcase the beauty of that acoustic instrument, the way a simple melody can take [...]
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Song: We Get Along Artist: The Slow Reel Sometimes it only takes a half a second to know that you’re going to like a song. Sometimes it only takes about half a lyrical line to know you’re going to love a song. This exact situation happened to me and The Slow Reel‘s southern sweet tea [...]
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Song: Under Streetlights Artist: Brooke Annibale Capturing the essence of a song and its title is a very difficult thing. I just said the word “essence”. Really? Yeah. What I’m trying to say is song titles can be a tricky. Sometimes they’re pulled from the chorus, or one random line, or they have absolutely nothing [...]
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Yo! We compiled a bunch of ECHO CHAMBER recordings. How abouts you check out the Bandcamp page (click above) and pick these tunes up? We'd appreciate it and we know you'll love 'em. The DUL Staff
